Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are interrupting my fixed gaze into the third ring of the electric fire , or my autistic pacing around the living room , as I try to determine whether the print that I thought was beautiful is in fact so vulgar that it is lying in wait to expose me to ridicule . |
| 2 | However , members of the public and councillors still seem to expect me to know every detail about every file in the department — an impossible task for anyone ! |
| 3 | ‘ If th'wants to get well , then th'must let me tend thee , ’ she insisted , undoing the last button and opening his shirt . |
| 4 | Yet lie let me talk … ’ |
| 5 | I was , however , able to reassure her on this point , as I could see no prospects of my ever getting close enough to any American for him to even ask my name , never mind ask me to marry him — and in the 1940 's you did have to wait to be asked . |
| 6 | I know that these things too are real , and yet I know that they too have helped me to find beauty . |